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TIL that the Joker appeared in Batman #1 and was Batman’s first “character” villain. Before him, Batman fought more traditional criminals, like mobsters.

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Z8mrp TIL of Efunroye Tinubu, a powerful slave trader in 19th century Nigeria. She was thought to have been so unapologetic and profit minded, she attempted to subvert a British anti-slavery treaty and, after a slave trade went wrong, said she: "would rather drown the slaves than sell them at a discount."
RMG4 TIL Before his arrest in 2012, Kim Dotcom was the world’s number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players.
GA1eN TIL the modern gas container, the jerry can, was invented in 1937 Germany. In the start of WWII, the UK used leaky, flimsy tin containers called "flimsies" but soon captured jerry cans and the Allies started copying the German design
KY849 TIL The Ancient Roman legions issued dog tags to legionnaires like modern militaries do
WkDBd TIL The original Duck Tales Theme was kept and translated for almost every international version of the show. The only outlier was South Korea's season one theme.